I did this as a little character design warmup before a larger project, so I could certainly push these a lot further, but I really enjoy them so far. Instead of a straightforward hero/villian dynamic, I wanted to go for rival knight/warrior characters inspired by a wolf and a caribou. This was really fur for experimenting more with body type and proportions! I might revisit these in the future.

To reinforce the rivalry theme, I even constructed a similar base shape motif of a heart, and then tried to put it into different shape structures for each character, trying to highlight the fundamental similarity between the two under the surface.